The Primary used to put on elaborate annual “festivals” on a stake basis — lots of singing and dancing, costumes, and speaking parts. I haven’t figured out how frogs, toadstools, Roman guards, and the Greek characters of Apollo, Persephone, and Ceres all fit together in 1937’s “blossom festival,” but apparently they did — because in several issues of the Children’s Friend early that year, photographs of children from the Grant Stake furnished models for other stakes to design their costumes.

I find the photograph of “Roman Guard” to be the most interesting. Or, rather, the name under the photograph:

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That’s 11-year-old Neal A. Maxwell, then of the East Mill Creek Ward Primary, and later of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.

(It’s hard to imagine that just eight years later, with no “armor” but a helmet–cotton, even dyed olive drab, doesn’t provide much protection, that “little boy” was in the U.S. Army, fighting on Okinawa. No wonder mothers worry so when their boys go to war.)